A study being led by Giuliana Noratto, a Washington State University food specialist, explores the cancer-fighting properties of peaches.
USA Today reports that: In a first-of-its kind study, published online in March in the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry, Noratto and her colleagues at Texas A&M University gave mice peach extract. They found it essentially caused the most aggressive cancer cells to commit suicide.
The study showed peaches with the most red contain more cancer-fighting compounds. Those particular compounds are not stable when heated, so Noratto said canned peaches do not pack the same cancer-fighting punch as the fresh fruit.
According to Noratto, people can get the same dose as the mice by eating two to three peaches, plums or nectarines a day, or with a dietary supplement of peach polyphenol extract powder.
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